Using the browserLanguage , systemLanguage , and userLanguage Properties

In these days of increasing internationalization, you may want to tailor your scripts to use the same language the user is using, which is where the Internet Explorer browserLanguage , systemLanguage , and userLanguage properties come in (see Table 10.3). The possible values for these propertiesan abbreviation like "en-us" for U.S. English or "de" for standard German (that is, "Deutsch")appear in Table 10.4.

Table 10.4. Language Abbreviations for the navigator Object's browserLanguage , systemLanguage , and userLanguage Properties

Language Abbreviations
af Afrikaans	ar-ae Arabic (U.A.E.)
ar-bh Arabic (Bahrain)	ar-dz Arabic (Algeria)
ar-eg Arabic (Egypt)	ar-iq Arabic (Iraq)
ar-jo Arabic (Jordan)	ar-kw Arabic (Kuwait)
ar-lb Arabic (Lebanon)	ar-ly Arabic (Libya)
ar-ma Arabic (Morocco)	ar-om Arabic (Oman)
ar-qa Arabic (Qatar)	ar-sa Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
ar-sy Arabic (Syria)	ar-tn Arabic (Tunisia)
ar-ye Arabic (Yemen)	be Belarusian
bg Bulgarian	ca Catalan
cs Czech	da Danish
de German (Standard)	de-at German (Austria)
de-ch German (Switzerland)	de-li German (Liechtenstein)
de-lu German (Luxembourg)	el Greek
en English	en English (Caribbean)
en-au English (Australia)	en-bz English (Belize)
en-ca English (Canada)	en-gb English (Great Britain)
en-ie English (Ireland)	en-jm English (Jamaica)
en-nz English (New Zealand)	en-tt English (Trinidad)
en-us English (United States)	en-za English (South Africa)
es Spanish (Spain)	es-ar Spanish (Argentina)
es-bo Spanish (Bolivia)	es-cl Spanish (Chile)
es-co Spanish (Colombia)	es-cr Spanish (Costa Rica)
es-do Spanish (Dominican Republic)	es-ec Spanish (Ecuador)
es-gt Spanish (Guatemala)	es-hn Spanish (Honduras)
es-mx Spanish (Mexico)	es-ni Spanish (Nicaragua)
es-pa Spanish (Panama)	es-pe Spanish (Peru)
es-pr Spanish (Puerto Rico)	es-py Spanish (Paraguay)
es-sv Spanish (El Salvador)	es-uy Spanish (Uruguay)
es-ve Spanish (Venezuela)	et Estonian
eu Basque	fa Farsi
fi Finnish	fo Faeroese
fr French (Standard)	fr-be French (Belgium)
fr-ca French (Canada)	fr-ch French (Switzerland)
fr-lu French (Luxembourg)	gd Gaelic (Scotland)
gd-ie Gaelic (Ireland)	he Hebrew
hi Hindi	hr Croatian
hu Hungarian	in Indonesian
is Icelandic	it Italian (Standard)
it-ch Italian (Switzerland)	ja Japanese
ji Yiddish	ko Korean
ko Korean (Johab)	lt Lithuanian
lv Latvian	mk FYRO Macedonian
ms Malaysian	mt Maltese
nl Dutch (Standard)	nl-be Dutch (Belgium)
no Norwegian (Bokmal)	no Norwegian (Nynorsk)
pl Polish	pt Portuguese (Portugal)
pt-br Portuguese (Brazil)	rm Rhaeto-Romanic
ro Romanian	ro-mo Romanian (Moldavia)
ru Russian	ru-mo Russian (Moldavia)
sb Sorbian	sk Slovak
sl Slovenian	sq Albanian
sr Serbian (Cyrillic)	sr Serbian (Latin)
sv Swedish	sv-fi Swedish (Finland)
sx Sutu	sz Sami (Lappish)
th Thai	tn Tswana
tr Turkish	ts Tsonga
uk Ukrainian	ur Urdu
ve Venda	vi Vietnamese
xh Xhosa	zh-cn Chinese (PRC)
zh-hk Chinese (Hong Kong SAR)	zh-sg Chinese (Singapore)
zh-tw Chinese (Taiwan)	zu Zulu